Word: slabbert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows the majority of Afrikaners want him to succeed, to restore the country to peace and prosperity and end its pariah status. "Afrikaners have become Africans," says Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, former leader of the liberal opposition in Parliament. "They cannot continue standing apart. De Klerk has said, Forget it. We tried that and it didn't work...
...late '70s, liberal white advocates of equal rights for blacks had been overwhelmingly English speaking, led by the likes of Alan Paton, Helen Suzman and Nadine Gordimer. Today younger Afrikaners are taking the lead among whites in the campaign for democracy and racial reconciliation, notably Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, a brilliant academic and former rugby star; Max du Preez, editor of the crusading paper Vrye Weekblad; and Tian van der Merwe, campaigning to close the gap between white parliamentarians and the A.N.C...